Lawrence W. Meyers--Extortion Charge

The following information pertains to former Media Bypass
writer Lawrence "Myers," whose real name is Lawrence Meyers,
who was used by the U.S. Attorney's office in the Eastern
District of Kentucky to introduce charges against Charles S.
Hayes, of Fifth Column fame.

Filed June 9, 1986

Superior Court of the State of California, County of Alameda
The People of the State of California -vs- Lawrence W.
Meyers
also known as Meyers W. Lawrence.

No. H-8333 Information
PFN APQ 513 CEN 5071570

The District Attorney of the County of Alameda hereby
accuses
LAWRENCE W. MEYERS also known as Meyers W. Lawrence
of a felony, to wit, a violation of Section 524 of the Penal
Code of
California, in that from on or about the 28th day of July,
1985, to on
or about the 7th day of August, 1985, in the County of
Alameda, State
of California, said defendant did then and there attempt to
extort money
and property from ROBERT HURTZ by threat.

JOHN J. MEEHAN
District Attorney of the County
of Alameda, State of California

About 1735 hours, Wednesday, 8-7-85, I was contacted . . . by KURTZ and
GYORY. KURTZ said he was the victim of an attempted extortion by a former
roommate, MEYERS and GYORY had witness information. KURTZ related the
following.

KURTZ said for the past 3-4 years he has known MEYERS. They had been friends
and at time roommates. . . .

KURTZ said on or about 6-7-85, MEYERS came to his home on an unannounced
social visit and during that time, MEYERS said he worked for Granada TV,
Livermore, CA. On or about 6-10-85, MEYERS returned to KURTZ's home and
made a sales presentation for a satellite TV antenna system. KURTZ was
interested in the offer, told MEYERS to come back in a few days and he
would be able to make a decision on the purchase. While waiting for MEYERS
to return, KURTZ contacted Granada TV, Livermore, found they were an
reputable firm and MEYERS did work for them.

On 6-18-85, MEYERS returned to KURTZ's home and a sales agreement was made
for the purchase of the satellite antenna. A work order was prepared by
MEYERS and a copy left with KURTZ. . . .

Between 6-18 to 7-1-85 MEYERS returned to KURTZ's home several times for
social visits and to keep KURTZ appraised of his purchase of the satellite
antenna.

On or about 7-6-85, KURTZ received a collect telephone call from MEYERS who
said he was at HIGHLAND Hospital, Oakland, CA, in the psychiatric section.
MEYERS asked KURTZ to come and visit him at the hospital. KURTZ did visit
MEYERS at the hospital twice, between 7-6 and 7-15-85. On KURTZ's second
visit, MEYERS told KURTZ he would be released from the hospital soon and
would need a place to stay. He asked if he could stay at the KURTZ home.
. . .

On 7-15-85 MEYERS arrived at KURTZ's home to live. Between 7-15 to 7-17-85,
MEYERS was heavily medicated and slept most of the time. On and after
7-18-85, MEYERS became very agressive and aggitated in his actions and
began taking on a military style attitude in his mannerism, associated
with an active combat soldier. MEYERS began staying up 16 to 21 hours a
day without sleep and engaged in military type war games of maneuvers in
the backyard (a hill and canyon area). MEYERS repeatedly advised KURTZ
and his roommate GYORY, that "You should make sure your enemy is killed on
your first shot." MEYERS carried a boot knife and a hunting knife and
talked quite a bit about firearms he had and could easily obtain. MEYERS
also began a "surveillance" of the neighbors and set up radio equipment in
his room, consisting of scanners, shortwave sets, telegraph keys, computers
and tape recorders. MEYERS became very engrossed in tape recording
everything broadcast on his scanners and advised KURTZ "You can't outrun
a radio."

On 7-22-85, [omitted] DUGAN from Granada TV came to KURTZ's home for
measurements for the purchased satellite antenna and at that time DUGAN
told him that MEYERS no longer worked for Granada TV.

[Omitted section on argument whereby Meyers leaves the house. Later Meyers
meets KURTZ at an underpass to return some items belonging to KURTZ and
GYORY.]

KURTZ contacted MEYERS at the underpass and MEYERS handed KURTZ a note and
drove off. KURTZ read the note and it was a hand printed note from MEYERS
threatening to expose KURTZ as a homosexual and child molestor on TV and
in newspapers across the country. The note ended with MEYERS advising
KURTZ he had ordered a satellite antenna for him, it costs $5,000 and
MEYERS wanted his money now. KURTZ said he dismissed the note as an
idle threat . . .

On 8-5-85, GYORY told KURTZ he received a telephone call from MEYERS about
0930 to 1000 hours advising of the same threats KURTZ had already received
and for KURTZ to check his mailbox. KURTZ went to his mailbox (on the
roadway in front of his home) and found a hand written note apparently
left by MEYERS. The note again threatened to expose KURTZ as a homosexual,
child molester, pornographer and registered sex offender. It also
threatened that MEYERS would impersonate a police officer, go to KURTZ's
employer and advise him of the threats listed above. . . . MEYERS urged
KURTZ to leave town, commit suicide or see a psychiatrist. Further, it
threatened MEYERS could make a professional execution of KURTZ. . . .

[Remainder omitted.]

Text of Note Meyers Handed Kurtz at the Underpass

DEAR FUCKING FAGGOT,

You will move out of your house, you will lose your job, you will have
your name in all the papers. You will be arrested for child molestation.
TV camera's will put your record collection and baseball cards and video
games on TV sets across the country. Reporters will call Mike and your
work and your father. I have a key to your house and I will tell the
Hayward Police Dept. about you soliciting me to do lewd things on a camera
for money. I will tell them about your photo's of naked little boys and
I will contact the father's of every [unclear] coming in and out of your
house. I have tapped your phone and bugged your house faggot. I know
just how to [unclear] you so that everyone knows that you are gye who
likes to play with little boy's penis's. You ordered a dish from me. The
price is 5,000.00. NOW.

. . . On Wednesday 8-7-85 . . . I received a call from a subject
identifying himself as Larry MYERS. MYERS insisted that I tape the
conversation to which I obliged after a short period of conversation.
That call occurred at approximately 1005 hrs. . . . During that conversation
MYERS willingly [said] that he was in fact extorting KURTZ for the sum
of $5,000.00 and that it didn't matter if KURTZ paid the money, MYERS
was going to kill him anyway. MYERS stated that he needed the money to
finance his para-military operations against drug dealers and homosexuals
in the area and that KURTZ deserved to die because he is a homosexual and
child abuser. Throughout the conversation, MYERS spoke in a tone of voice
and used terms consistant [with] and associated with military jargon.
Further, during the conversation, MYERS stated that he had dealt with
Lt. JOHNSON of Livermore Police Dept. . . . MYERS refers to other deaths
of drug dealers that he had contributed to in the Livermore area and
considered himself a highly trained American fighting man capable of
ridding towns and cities of drug dealers and homosexuals.

At 1500 hrs on 8-7-85, I proceeded to Livermore Police Dept. where contact
was made with Lt. JOHNSON. At that time I played a small portion of the
taped conversation for JOHNSON. JOHNSON immediately identified the calling
party as Larry MYERS stating that he would be willing to testify to the
identity of the caller. JOHNSON further stated that he did in fact have
dealing with MYERS in that MYERS wished to become a narcotics informant for
Livermore Police. JOHNSON said that during that time, approximately two
weeks prior to this date, Livermore Police attempted to test MYERS as an
informant which failed. JOHNSON described MYERS as a "wanna-be" narcotics
officer however, he could not supply any valid or useful information.
JOHNSON said that MYERS could be capable of killing someone if pushed into
it and described MYERS as mentally unstable. JOHNSON said he ultimately
kicked MYERS out of the police station. . . .